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27 “You will tell them all these things, but they won’t listen to you. You will call out to them, but they won’t answer you. 28 You will say to them, ‘This is the nation that wouldn’t listen to the voice[a] of the Lord its God and wouldn’t accept correction. Truth has perished; it has been eliminated from their discussions.’

29 “Cut off your hair and throw it away;
    let your lamentations rise on the barren heights,
because the Lord has rejected and abandoned
    the generation that is subject to his wrath.[b]

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  1. Jeremiah 7:28 I.e. wouldn’t obey
  2. Jeremiah 7:29 Lit. generation of his wrath

27 So you shall speak to them all these words, but they will not listen to you, and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

The Valley of the Slaughter

28 “And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the voice of Yahweh their God, and they have not accepted discipline. The truth has perished, and it is cut off from their mouths.[a] 29 Shear your hair and throw it[b] away, and lift up a lament on the barren heights, for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:28 Hebrew “mouth”
  2. Jeremiah 7:29 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation